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With sponsorship from China's Ministry of Science and Technology and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the training program is a part of the "Rainwater harvesting technology in Africa" program, one of the four programs included in the China-UNEP memorandum on African environmental technologies signed last year, according to Li.
Li's institute is helping to carry out an ongoing training program in northwest China's Gansu Province for rainwater-harvesting technologies for seven African countries.
LANZHOU, May 15 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese expert said Friday he hoped more African countries could tackle water shortages in the future with the help from China.
The province has so far trained more than 200 rainwater-harvesting engineers from more than 70 countries.
Gansu Province, one of the driest Chinese provinces, reports an annual precipitation of about 300 mm. It began collecting rainwater for irrigation purposes in the 1980s.
Li Yuanhong, president of Gansu Provincial Water Conservation Research Institute, said his organization had offered consulting services and helped design and build water storage and purification facilities in several countries including Saudi Arabia
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After a three-day seminar, the trainees visited Daping Village of the arid
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Nineteen government officials and engineers from Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and South Africa are attending the two-week training program that opened Monday in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu.
Bob Muzyamba, Secretary General of Zambia's Rainwater Harvesting Association, said his country was hoping to promote rainwater-harvesting technologies, especially in its arid south.
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